Shipping Intelligence.
PORT OP POVERTY BAY. The new Cunarder Servia, on her trial trip, attained 201 miles per hour, with 2,500 tons dead weight on board. A barrel of naphtha oil burst on board the steamer Severn in Kingstown Harbor, and caught fire at a ttere in the steerage. The result was that five sailors and one passenger were burnt to ashes, and the steamer herself •was nearly destroyed before the flames were quenched. Shaw, Saville, and Co.’s bai que Duncraig left London for Auckland on October 28, with the following passengers : —Second Cabin : Thomas Ayer and Andrew Moyes. Steerage : William Rodgers, J. Baldwin, J. Sloan, Mary Sloan, Annie Sloan, Robert Johnstone, Mr* Johnstone’ Mary Hogan. James Nieolson, Mrs Studd, Tom Studd, and Jane Studd.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1015, 22 December 1881, Page 2
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125Shipping Intelligence. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1015, 22 December 1881, Page 2
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